laupeen
Yola
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editlaupe (“to leap”) + -een (“diminutive suffix, borrowed from Irish -ín”), literally little leaper. Compare also harpleat (“sniper”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlaupeen
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52